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how can you stand it? that's too many exciting afternoons in one week!

I am not sure I have your current email address and all that - check your pm

congratulations! great name by the way! best wishes and prayers for everyone! I imagine it was really rough not being able to bring him home right away but that is wonderful he is coming home from ICU -

how'd you see steff, ss2k4, RPS, etc and not see me? We must have missed each by seconds. No one told me you were there Oh well, my best to everyone and when is the next saturday or Sunday you will be there?

I am enjoying, I much prefer the 5-3 start over last year's. This season I have no expectations however. I am not optimistic or pessimistic; I am wait-and-see-istic. Speaking of seeing, I did not see you Tuesday - we got to figure out when we can get together with huge and zach61. Well, you get together with them all the time but I don't. Speaking of enjoying, I had 3 beers prior to the game and 1 at the time, a new USCF high for me (I have seasons without a beer) and in a desire to lower the BAC I resorted to eating the nachos. Which IO did not enjoy. But I did enjoy a Blue Moon beer courtesy of ss2k4!

at 5-3 I am not yet dancing in the streets. Now if we play at that rate all season and end with 102 wins, then I will ask the question about pessimism. And I will dance in the stands, in the street, etc. But it is far too soon to judge anything yet,

CubKilla is that person- saw him opening day with Mike and Guido - really great guys all of them

nuke, perhaps I was not clear, or I misunderstand. I hope by now you are well aware that I enjoy the sharing of opinions and insights, I have learned much thereby and I had frankly forgotten the Morris book and will put that on my list thanks to you I have a long day at work ahead, a very long day, My point that I poorly made was that I am not up for a back and forth with friends today in areas where we disagree, not because I am not open to differing opinions but this day will have enough conflict at the job that I don't want to have any with people like you who I value. We can debate another day, Today, it is just not where I am at. I disagree about the Clinton/Gore analysis that you make. You disagree with me. So that is life. If we all agreed, how boring. Disagreement means we are at least all involved and that is good. But today has enough troubles of its own at my job. My concern right now is to get through that, my job this day, not to verbally spar today with a good Sox fan, a good poster, a friend, that is all I meant. If I misunderstood you, I apologise. We will have other days between now and November when we can go a few rounds in friendly differences. You take care, my friend.

I am not in a mood to do rhetoric with you either, it gets no one no where anyway but I have a lot of other things from work on my mind. The use of overstatement in making sweeping generalizations is just not something I think is an argument. No one has advocated that every warning should reach the level of a PDB, no one has argued that, and if you want to argue that, you've made up your own straw argument. I expect that what reaches the president's desk, the president will act upon, especially material labelled about an attack on the US. This president did not even ask for follow up on August 6. I hope you are more involved in your job than Bush is in his. I expect action from the president. You accept inaction. Basic difference between us. So be it and life goes on. No one has ever claimed that the Milennium event was other than within the scope of the local people so what excited you about Reno's testimony is your own thing. Clinton's administration did much. Ideology was one reason the Bush administration did little. Bush himself told Woodward he had "no sense of urgency." Obviously. I heard some stories the other day about what a great person you are - your friends speak very well of you. That is always a tribute. I didn't think to do this on Tuesday with your buddy who speaks so highly of you (as I drank his beer...), we should have had a toast to you, so here goes:

I wondered about that too!

nuke, I respectfully submit you misunderstand. I wish Bush had been involved in fighting terrorism. Osama bin laden is still at large. We are bogged down in the situation in Iraq, a nation that had no ties to bin Laden nor to al qeada. The threat of terrorism has increased because if nothing else our actions in Iraq have recruited many more to hate us. Everything involved with Iraq has taken us away from the fight with terrorism and in fact exacerbated it, at a tremendous cost of lives, time, resources, and results which will work against us. As for the rest of your post I don't buy it, it is rhetoric you are giving and that is cool, I am not in the mood for a rhetorical exchange today. There are days that you post that I am just glad to see you are posting because it means you are ok. Be careful out there.

That is why I keep my game scores as I do, as I did today for the innings I was here: CLee 0-1 0-2 0-2 foul just got a piece of 1-2 1-2 foul 2-2 3-2 in the dirt 4-2 W bases loaded no outs that allows me at least to see what you are praising CLee for - I agree that he saved the at bat from down 0-2 to get the walk

Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York. The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full-field investigations throughout the U.S. that it considers bin Laden-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group or bin Laden supporters was in the U.S. planning attacks with explosives. These last sentences of the August 6 2001 PDB - everytime Bush calls this "historical" and not "actionable" I wonder what level of denial he is in. I am surprised so many are letting Bush off the hook on this. This cried out for a presidential followup and a possible alert to the airlines about preparations for hijackings.

spiff says I was trying to keep folks from jumping! The despair some people feel! As spiff also sagely suggests, there are 9 innings. I've seen enough comebacks through the years to never give up (except when Matt Karchner pitched for us). It was a surprise to see this thread, thank you!

someone got it just before I did

thanks!

partron saints gets the "skinny" on some things - I knew along - no panic here - remember early on I spoke of teams with big come backs (ala KC) that lost - I saw it coming all the way! unfortunately my divine source never tells me the winning lottery tickets..

not Jose there my friend - Crede

trust me people I have connections

Leskanic pitching Mags 1-0 2-0 3-0 3-1 4-1 runner on no outs Frank 1-0 pitch that was a tad exciting for a ball single to 4, Mags at 2nd, Frank at 2st 2 on, no out Willie runs for Frank CLee 0-1 0-2 0-2 foul just got a piece of 1-2 1-2 foul 2-2 3-2 in the dirt 4-2 W bases loaded no outs PK 0-1 PK single down 9 line Mags scores game tied

Leskanic pitching Mags 1-0 2-0 3-0 3-1 4-1 runner on no outs Frank 1-0 pitch that was a tad exciting for a ball single to 4, Mags at 2nd, Frank at 2st 2 on, no out Willie runs for Frank CLee 0-1 0-2 0-2 foul just got a piece of 1-2 1-2 foul 2-2 3-2 in the dirt 4-2 W bases loaded no outs

Leskanic pitching Mags 1-0 2-0 3-0 3-1 4-1 runner on no outs Frank 1-0 pitch that was a tad exciting for a ball single to 4, Mags at 2nd, Frank at 2st 2 on, no out

Leskanic pitching Mags 1-0 2-0 3-0 3-1 4-1 runner on no outs

we score two, we yell and scream, all is good now believe! it will be a famous victory that inspires the season!

any particular time of day you have in mind?